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I'd rather not get into a discussion of what "privacy" means, but Twitter (and Facebook) are almost certainly violating most of their users' perceptions of what
by andreyf 16y ago
I'd rather not get into a discussion of what "privacy" means, but Twitter (and Facebook) are almost certainly violating most of their users' perceptions of what Twitter does with their tweets. That said, if they anonymize the tweets and hold the buyers contractually obligated not to de-anonymize them, I think most users would be OK with that. Each user owns their tweets, as does Twitter, but only Twitter owns all of the tweets.
- tptacek 16y agoIt's a broadcast medium. People literally keep score with each other about how many people they can get to follow them, and how many people they can get to RT their messages. I think you're simply dead wrong about this.
- pyre 16y ago1. Reality and perceptions don't always collide. Like the people that post messages on Facebook about calling into work sick when they aren't... only to have their boss read the message and fire them over it. 2. What about the people whose Twitter accounts are private? 3. The people 'racing' with each other for followers or retweets are by definition more public than most other people. Unless you are going to claim that all or most Twitter users fall into that category. Trying to use them to categorize the user base of Twitter as a whole seems a bit off. 4. Twitter is a broadcast medium, but what we are talking about are the perceptions of the people using it, not the reality of the situation. There are plenty of people that broadcast stuff publicly that they wouldn't want their parents to read. Why would they do so? "My parents aren't on Twitter." I'm sure the same thing applies to bosses and the workplace.
- timf 16y agoIn what sense do you think each user "owns" their tweets? In most cases it's not at all, here's a good page on the topic: http://www.canyoucopyrightatweet.com http://www.canyoucopyrightatweet.com